Pilihan program

Ringkasan program

This program prepares graduates to take and pass the national registry examination in echocardiography and qualify to enter the health care workforce as cardiac sonographers. Sonography or ultrasonography is the use of sound waves to generate an image for the assessment and diagnosis of various medical conditions. Trained sonographers operate equipment that collects reflected echoes and forms an image that may be recorded for interpretation and diagnosis by a physician. Echocardiographers specialize in sonography of the human heart. The application and selection process for administration to the Echocardiography Technology program occurs alternate summers. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment "of diagnostic medical sonographers is expected to grow faster than the average of all occupations through 2016 as the population grows and ages" The optimistic outlook for diagnostic medical sonographers is also based on the need to replace existing sonographers and because many patients are seeking safer diagnostic methods such as sonography, due to improvements in technology and increasing demands on the health care system related to changes in population demographics.

Modul program

The modules are as follows: SON 1113 ULTRASOUND PHYSICS AND INSTRUMENTATION I, SON 1133 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY I, SON 1153 PATIENT CARE, MEDICAL ETHICS and LAW, SON 1213 PHYSICS and INSTRUMENTATION II, SON 1253 CLINICAL EXPERIENCE I, SON 2014 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY II, SON 2023 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY III, SON 2134 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IV, SON 2253 CLINICAL EXPERIENCE II, SON 2313 CARDIOVASCULAR CONCEPTS, SON 2353 CLINICAL EXPERIENCE III, SON 2453 CLINICAL EXPERIENCE IV, BIOL 1214 HUMAN ANATOMY, PSIO 2314 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY.

Persyaratan masuk bagi mahasiswa internasional

Applicants must have completed high school core curriculum requirements such as four units in English - grammar, composition and literature, three units in mathematics - algebra I and above, two units in history - must include one unit of American history, two units in lab science - biology, chemistry, physics or any lab science certified by the school district, one unit in citizenship skills - economics, geography, government, non-western culture, three units in other - additional units of subjects above and/or from computer science and/or foreign language. Applicants should have graduated from an accredited high school or should have earned a General Education Diploma (GED). In addition to this, international students should have obtained a minimum TOEFL score of 500 (paper-based), or 61 (internet-based); or an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 6.0.

Kualifikasi

Associate’s Degrees setara dengan 2 tahun Universitas

Institusi penerbit ijazah

Oklahoma State University

Nama jurusan

Division of Health Services